Improvement in buckles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC BANISTER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 46.324, dated February 14, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, IsAAc BANIs'rER, of the city ot' Newark, in the county of Essex and State ot' New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Double Buckle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction of the same, reference being had to the accom panyin gdrawings and the letters of reference marked' thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar construction of a double buckle, which is formed by making a common buckle with a center bar acting as a hinge for the tongue, corresponding to letters A, B, and O in Fig. l--the tongue acting in the usual way upon the top of the rim or frame a ofthe bucklethen attaching a rim or frame, D, to the ends-of the bar B, close to the rim of the main buckle on the under side of the buckle, as shown in Fig. 3, said frame to be about the size (more or less) and form of one-half the v buckle, and then attaching another tongue, E,

to the same bar, so as to act upon the second or under frame, D, from the under side, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to form two distinct buckles acting in reverse order from one common center bar, one buckling from above and the other from beneath, as in Fig. 2, thus allowing the under strap to be taken up or let out at pleasure, and to any desired length, the same as the top strap.

I construct my buckles in any known form and of any suitable material, using either the usual tongue-buckle or the clamp tongues to shut inside the rim.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to vsecure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination ot' two buckles, acting upon one center bar in contrary direction-from the center, the upper tongue resting upon the top of the frame and the other tonguc resting under the under frame, as set forth, and for the purpose named above.

ISAAC BANISTER.

Witnesses:

i JAs. A. BANIsTER,

CHARLES M. TAYLOR. 

